Wigan Album

Is this not Greenhough Street ?

No. it's taken as the brigade is marching up Darlington Street at the other side of the bridge was the PEPPER MILL. I remember the shops you can see There was a surgical appliance shop about 3 or 4 shops from the bridge. can't remember what the other shops were?

Sorry about that Ron. I know where it is now. Great picture.

back in the 60s
wigan school of motoring had offices round about there

There was a good second hand bookshop at the other end of the row in the mid '70s.

Yes the guy, can't just think of his name? had some really good old books, However the place was damp and you could smell the mustiness on the books. He also carved model horses for carousels. He had a working model of a carousel in the window at one time.

Seem to remember his surname was Joynt, but I can't remember his christian name.

A little higher up was Norman Leather's a music shop, you could make a recording there. A childrens wear shop called Little Sunbean and Calland's toy shop.Higher up still on the next block on the corner of Harrowgate St., stood The Preston Arms. At the top of that block the first D.I.Y. shop in Wigan,The Woodworkers Supplie, decades before B&Q Wickes ect.,

In 1939 The shop with the hoardings was a s/h Furniture shop
next was a Dog & Bird food shop ( My mother & Dads)and my dad ran his plumbing business from there, then Mrs Penningtons Sweet & tobacco shop and then Slaters had two shops one a chemists and one a surgical appliance shop acroos the road was McCandlishes Confectioners and the Hiltons tripe shop next On the outbrake of war myy dad had to go on war work and due to a food shortage we had to close the shop.

My sister and I think that the man at the very front with the drum is our Father, Harry Shepherd, who later became the Drum Major tossing the Mace and leading the procession! Can anyone confirm this perhaps?

I think the tallest lad in the middle playing the drum is my dad james lythgoe did anybody know him ?